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CDJ 2026 TSHC 340 print Preview print print
Court : High Court for the State of Telangana
Case No : Writ Petition No. 16726 of 2026
Judges: THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE G.M. MOHIUDDIN
Parties : Koduri Meena Kumari Versus The State of Telangana & Others
Appearing Advocates : For the Petitioner: Ambedkar Dunna, Advocate. For the Respondent: Government Pleader for Home.
Date of Judgment : 15-05-2026
Head Note :-
Subject
Judgment :-

1. The present writ petition is filed with the following prayer:

               “……to issue an appropriate writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of WRIT OF MANDAMUS declaring the action of the respondents No. 4 being a State authority by misusing official powers in unlawful custody of the petitioner / illegal detention by violating of Article 21 and 22 is illegal, arbitrary, violation of principles of natural - justice, fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution of India, contrary to the evidence on record and as well as the provisions of The SC / ST Atrocities Act and rules made thereunder and consequently direct the respondents No. 2 to constitute special investigating team ie., ( CBI / CID / SIT) against the respondents no. 7 & 8 in connection with illegal detention / remand in Cr No. 257 of 2026 dated 05/05/2026 and grant compensation amount of Rs. 50,000,00/-to the petitioner and preserve the CCTv potages from the dated 18/04/2026 to 05/05/2026 of the 5th and 6th respondent premises and as well as phone call data, cell tower location of the 7th and 8th respondents and 9th and 10th respondents and not to harass the petitioner by threatening in any means by the respondents nos. 7th and 8th respondents as they are being police officials ….”

2. Heard Mr. Dunna Ambedkar, learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr. M. Mahesh Raje, learned Government Pleader for Home, appearing for respondents and perused the material on record.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was subjected to custodial torture and ill-treatment in the hands of respondent Nos.7 and 8. The learned counsel also seeks for preservation of the CCTV footage on the ground that the CCTV footage would reveal the alleged ill-treatment meted out to the petitioner.

4. On the other hand, the learned Government Pleader for Home contends that the said submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner is falsified by the submissions of the petitioner recorded by the learned Magistrate in the remand docket order which is contemporaneous record. The petitioner herein as per the remand docket order dated 05.05.2026 examined by the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate and had reported no ill-treatment in the hands of the Police authorities. The remand docket order further records that the petitioner was represented by her counsel while she was produced for remand. The learned Government Pleader for Home further contended that the writ petition is not maintainable. He also submits that if the petitioner is aggrieved by the alleged illegal action of the respondents, the appropriate remedy for the petitioner would be to institute a private complaint and prayed to dismiss the writ petition.

5. Having heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Home, I am of the prima facie view that the relief sought for by the petitioner to constitute a special investigation team, cannot be granted, because the contemporaneous record contained in the remand docket order of the learned Magistrate clearly reflects that the petitioner herself acknowledged that no ill-treatment had been meted out to her. In the face of such an admission made by the petitioner before the learned Magistrate that there was no ill-treatment and that she was accompanied by her counsel at the time of production, the allegations now sought to be raised are untenable.

6. Thus, this Court does not find any material warranting the preservation of the CCTV footage, or grant of any other relief sought in the writ petition. The Writ Petition is devoid of merits and is liable to be dismissed.

7. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs.

As a sequel, miscellaneous petitions, pending if any, stand closed.

 
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